:This article is about a city in Maryland. For the surrounding county, see [[Baltimore County, Maryland|Baltimore County, Maryland]]. For other uses, see [[Baltimore (disambiguation)|Baltimore (disambiguation)]].

:This article is about a city in Maryland. For the surrounding county, see [[Baltimore County, Maryland|Baltimore County, Maryland]]. For other uses, see [[Baltimore (disambiguation)|Baltimore (disambiguation)]].

*'''1851--'''The City broke off from surrounding Baltimore County, 13 May 1851 as an Independent City.<ref name="HBG">[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50140092&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;referer=brief_results ''Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed.''] (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), 181. [FHL book 973 D27e 2002].</ref>

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*'''1851--'''The City broke off from surrounding Baltimore County, 13 May 1851 as an Independent City.<ref name="HBG">[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50140092&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;referer=brief_results ''Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed.''] (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), 181. [FHL book 973 D27e 2002].</ref>

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Fold3.com ($) has [http://www.fold3.com/title_11/city_directories_baltimore Baltimore City Directories 1863-1923] (5 yrs. missing) available online. Fold3 is free at some libraries and at [http://www.archives.gov/locations/archival-research.html National Archives research rooms].

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Fold3.com ($) has [http://www.fold3.com/title_11/city_directories_baltimore Baltimore City Directories 1863-1923] (5 yrs. missing) available online. Fold3 is free at some libraries and at [http://www.archives.gov/locations/archival-research.html National Archives research rooms].

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Cranwell, John Philips and William Bowers Crane ''Men of Marque&nbsp;: a history of private armed vessels out of Baltimore during the War of 1812''&nbsp; (Norton, c 1940, New York) pages 427&nbsp; Bibliography pages 415-418, [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/show?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fcatalog-search-api%3A8080%2Fwww-catalogapi-webservice%2Fitem%2F625578 FHL 975.26 M3]<br>

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Cranwell, John Philips and William Bowers Crane ''Men of Marque&nbsp;: a history of private armed vessels out of Baltimore during the War of 1812''&nbsp; (Norton, c 1940, New York) pages 427&nbsp; Bibliography pages 415-418, [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/show?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fcatalog-search-api%3A8080%2Fwww-catalogapi-webservice%2Fitem%2F625578 FHL 975.26 M3]<br>

City Health Department has birth, death and burial records.Common Pleas Court has marriage records. Clerk Circuit Court has divorce records, trust estates, adoption and name changes from 1853. Register of Wills has probate records.[1]

History

Founded 30 July 1729, named for Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Lord Baltimore, Proprietor of Maryland.

Baltimore is anglicanized name for the Irish Gaelic name, Baile an Tí Mhóir, meaning the Town of the Big House referring to the O'Driscoll castle that still domains the town.

In the War of 1812, the British troops attacked Baltimore after the burning of Washington, D.C., on the night of 13 September 1814 in the Battle of Baltimore. It was the scene of the poem "The Star-Spangled Banner."

The Union troops occupied Baltimore to prevent the secession of Maryland from the Union during the Civil War, after Confederate sympathizers attacked the Union troops in the Baltimore riot of 1861. Maryland came under direct Federal administration.

7 February 1904, the Great Fire of Baltimore destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.

Parent County

1851--The City broke off from surrounding Baltimore County, 13 May 1851 as an Independent City.[1]

Census

Federal Census reports available 1800-1930 including slave and veterans schedules.

Police Census

1868--The Baltimore City Archives has a police census for some city wards of Baltimore on one microfilm.

Church Records

Maryland State Archives' Guide to Maryland Religious Institutions identifies all churches known to have existed in the Baltimore City, Maryland. It covers all denominations and includes record descriptions. The following records, taken from its collection, have been digitized and made available to view for free online:

The Diocese of Baltimore was the first Catholic diocese in the United States. Established in 1789, it included the entire country at the time. Records were transferred to the new dioceses as they were created. Original sacramental records are kept by the parishes. Microfilm of sacramental records for about seventy-five parishes, mostly Baltimore city churches established before 1900, are available for public use at the Maryland State Archives in Annapolis. The central archives has no records of use to genealogical researchers. Certificates are issued by the parish of origin.

Catholic newspaper: The Catholic ReviewPO Box 777Cathedral St.Baltimore, MD 21203the newspaper is not generally helpful to genealogists - carried few obituaries. The earlier newspaper for the diocese was The Catholic Mirror, 1850-1908. The newspapers are on microfilm at the main branch of the Encoh Pratt Library in Baltimore.

[Philpot] Russell, George Ely. "Brian Philpot Family of Maryland: With Notes on English Relatives," The Genealogist, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Fall 2003):131-165.

Gazetteers

Immigration

The New Early Settlers of Maryland database is a great place to start searching for immigrants who had arrived in the colony by the 1680s. The database "comprises 34,326 entries from Gust Skordas' Early Settlers of Maryland and Carson Gibb's Supplement to the Early Settlers of Maryland." Available online, courtesy: Maryland State Archives.

Local Histories

Maps

Military

Revolutionary War

A Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Services: With their Names, Ages, and Places of Residence, as Returned by the Marshalls of the Several Judicial Districts, Under the Act for Taking the Sixth Census]. 1841. Digital version at Google Bookset. al. 1967 reprint: FHL Collection 973 X2pc 1840. [See Maryland, Baltimore City on page 128.]

War of 1812

Cranwell, John Philips and William Bowers Crane Men of Marque : a history of private armed vessels out of Baltimore during the War of 1812 (Norton, c 1940, New York) pages 427 Bibliography pages 415-418, FHL 975.26 M3

Civil War

Since the city broke off from surrounding Baltimore County in 1851, the Civil War records for the city of Baltimore will be in the city's military records rather than with the county's records.

Regiments. Service men in Baltimore (Independent City), Maryland served in various regiments. Men often joined a company (within a regiment) that originated in their county. Listed below are companies that were specifically formed in Baltimore (Independent City), Maryland:

Naturalization

Though it does not appear on the Family History Library Catalog under the naturalization section of the City of Baltimore or Baltimore County, the Family History Library has acquired published abstracts of Baltimore naturalizations from 1784 through 1854:

Oszakiewski, Robert Andrew. Maryland Naturalization Abstracts. Baltimore County and Baltimore City [1784-1854]. Westminster, Maryland: Family Line Publications, 1995. Available at FHL US/CAN Book 975.2 P48o.